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Respiratory Medicine

Volume 97, Issue 1, January 2003, Pages 46-50
Respiratory Medicine

Regular Article
Effects by 8-bromo-cyclicAMP on basal and organic dust-induced release of interleukin-6 and interleukin-8 in A549 human airway epithelial cells

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Abstract

Inhalation of organic dust from a swine-confinement building leads to an intense inflammatory reaction with an increased number of inflammatory cells and mediators in the upper and lower respiratory tract of previously unexposed subjects. In vitro the dust induces cytokine release from epithelial cells and alveolar macrophages. It is known that intracellular cyclic AMP (cAMP) contributes to the regulation of inflammatory responses. We therefore investigated whether 8-Bromo-cAMP, a cell membrane-permeable cAMP analogue, would influence release of the cytokines interleukin-6 (IL-6) and IL-8 in a human airway epithelial cell line, A549, exposed to a suspension of the organic dust, and to a supernatant prepared by centrifugation (at low g-force) of a suspension of dust. The large particulate matter was thus sedimented, leaving bacteria, whole and cell wall constituents in the supernatant. Cytokine release was measured with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The cytokine release induced by a supernatant was 23% (IL-6) and 27% (IL-8) of the release induced by a dust suspension. 8-Bromo-cAMP (1mM) doubled basal IL-6 release and IL-6 release induced by a dust supernatant (P<0.01), and increased IL-6 release induced by a dust suspension by 19% (P<0.05). 8-Bromo-cAMP did not affect basal IL-8 release, partially inhibited (28%) the release of IL-8 induced by a dust suspension (P<0.01), but increased IL-8 release induced by a dust supernatant by 13% (P<0.05). In summary, expression of the cytokines IL-6 and IL-8 is differentially regulated by 8-Bromo-cAMP, both with regard to basal and dust-induced release. The results indicate that 8-Bromo-cAMP attenuated IL-8 release by affecting signaling transductions induced by the particulate fraction.

Keywords

airway epithelial cells
A549
8-Bromo-cAMP
cytokine release
organic dust
particles.

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Correspondence should be addressed to: Dr Lena, Palmberg, MD, Ph D, The National Institute of Environmental Medicine, Lung- and Allergy Research, Karolinska Institute, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden. E-mail:[email protected]